Venture Fund Member Profile

Kibo Ventures invests in exceptional digital companies led by great teams and entrepreneurs. We invest in their earlier stages and look for exponential growth.

Jose Maria AmusateguiFounding PartnerKibo Ventures

Jose Maria Amusategui is a Founding Partner of Cygnus Asset Management SGIIC SA, the first independent regulated firm approved in Spain to manage hedge funds. He has over 25 years experience in Consulting, Private Equity, Investment and Private Banking.

Before joining Cygnus, Jose Maria worked for 14 years for UBS (1992-2006) in both the Investment Banking and Wealth Management divisions. Initially based in London and later in Madrid, he was involved in M&A, IPOs, equity derivative structures while at Corporate Finance. During his years in the Wealth Management side of the business, he launched a Corporate Finance capacity dedicated to private clients (where he worked with Javier Torremocha for 5 years) as well as the Key Clients Group, covering the largest private clients in Spain.

Jose Maria began his professional career in 1986 working for the consulting division of Arthur Andersen (now Accenture), gaining experience on information systems, programming and strategic management consulting. Later in 1988 he worked for Advent International, a private equity firm, generating deal flow, doing financial analysis and due diligence.

He has a Law degree from Universidad Complutense in Madrid and an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona. He has also been designated as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

Representative Investments

CartoDB Vizzuality (or CartoDB, its main product) is a cloud based mapping, analysis and visualization engine that lets users easyly build in a very simple fashion great spatial applications for both mobile and the web. Vizzuality was founded in 2007 by Javier de la Torre and Sergio Alvarez. Since then, they have worked for an amazing array of clients, such as NASA, UN, main global media players (WSJ, The Guardian, ..), twitter, etc.. helping them build wonderful maps and applications.

iContainers is the first online transactional service to easily send Containers internationally. iContainers operates in Spain and USA

Playthe.Net is the largest Digital Signage network in Spain with thousands of digital screens where agencies and advertisers can display their adverts in a highly segmented way. On top of the screens the company has build a very innovation self administrated tool to create, plan and segment where and which adverts will be displayed. The company also allows to its partner sites to offer free wifi, thus building one of the largest free wifi network in the country.

Redbooth is a collaboration and communication platform that provides a single place for shared tasks, discussions, file sharing, group chat and HD video conferencing. Redbooth is simple to use and flexible, enabling project teams and departments at thousands of companies to get work done. Founded as Teambox in Barcelona in 2008, the company is now headquartered in Redwood City, California and led by Dan Schoenbaum.

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